River search for missing boy still active; O.P.P. divers end their work

ROCKPORT – The O.P.P. Underwater Search and Recovery Unit has ended its search for an 11-year-old boy, presumed drowned in the St. Lawrence River over the Labour Day weekend.

Leeds County O.P.P. say scuba divers finished up yesterday (Sept. 6) after “conducting numerous dives” but will be available “pending any new information.”

That doesn’t mean other agencies have given up in trying to find the child who was vacationing with family when their boat capsized on the St. Lawrence River in what has been described by witnesses as a freak accident.

The family is from Ottawa.

Four people were rescued Sept. 1 but the 11-year-old failed to resurface after going in the water, the O.P.P. said.